The North Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case regarding campus police records at private schools, an important victory for the Elon University graduate and former student journalist.

In June, the N.C. court of appeals ruled that private university police departments in the state are not subject to the state’s open records law. The appeals court upheld an earlier ruling issued last year that found the school provided sufficient information when Nick Ochsner requested police records from the school’s Campus Safety and Police Department.